Topband: CQWW CW 160m

[g3nkc]

Gene, Can you contact me off reflector at g3nkc at yahoo.co.uk?ThanksDave, G3NKC Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: EUGENE GABRY via Topband <topband at contesting.com> Date: 27/11/2024  20:07  (GMT+00:00) To: g3nkc via Topband <topband at contesting.com> Subject: Re: Topband: CQWW CW 160m Hi Roger,I can attest there were many US and VE along with several Caribbean stations CQing between 04:17utc-05:59 Sunday morning (Saturday night local) when I was S&Ping and CQing on 160.There were 6 VE ops on CQing another half dozen east coast ops and several midwest ops that I could hear with my low inverted L.Also CQing were VP5M, PJ2T, PJ4K, and 8P5A. I heard M6T and MW5B here on this end but could not get their attention other than an occsional ??agn. Those were the only two EU ops I heard here. 160 was not as quiet here as it can be. My noise floor was up at S7 and normally can be as low as S1-2. Usually EU pops in around the S5 threshold. M6T and MW5B were right at my S7 noise floor but 100% copyable. I did work all four of the Caribbean ops, but PJ2T was the toughest. It took many minutes trying off and on to get his attention, and he was a solid S9 here. May have been a noisy band on his end?Dave is correct though, conditions being better on 80 and 40 for more mults in a contest, one is going to spendmore time where the feeding frenzy is more plentiful!I hope to work you and Dave one of these times on 160.73!Gene N9TF > On 11/27/2024 1:35 PM CST g3nkc via Topband <topband at contesting.com> wrote:> >  > For sure Roger, I was CQing only, except when I tried to call PJ2T.Guessing Many of the stations I worked, would have worked M6T for their  mult, but there were quite a few M/M un USA too.Also, if you had CQed, you would have hit RBNs, so more casual ops would have come to you I guess, I know you get out well73 Dave, G3NKC Sent from my Galaxy> -------- Original message --------From: Roger Kennedy <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk> Date: 27/11/2024  19:11  (GMT+00:00) To: topband at contesting.com Subject: Topband: CQWW CW 160m Hi DaveWell you certainly worked a lot more NA stations than I did . . . But I'm guessing you were mainly calling CQ, and they called YOU?Whereas I was mainly tuning around, looking for NA stations to call. (anddidn't hear many!)Roger G3YRO_________________Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector> _________________> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector_________________Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector